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Pi culture There is an entire field of humorous yet serious study that involves the use of mnemonic techniques to remember the digits of π, which is known as piphilology. For example, part of the school cheer of MIT is: "Cosine, secant, tangent, sine!
Pi Day Pi Day and Pi Approximation Day are two unofficial holidays held to celebrate the mathematical constant π (Pi). Pi Day is observed on March 14; Pi Approximation Day may be observed on any of several dates, most often July 22 (22/7 - in European date format - is a popular approximation of π).
Pi Gamma Mu Pi Gamma Mu or ΠΓΜ is the oldest and preeminent honor society in the social sciences. It serves the various social science disciplines which seek to understand and explain human behavior and social relationships as well as their concomitant problems and issues.
Pi Kappa Delta Pi Kappa Delta is a Forensics (Public Speaking and Debate) Honor Society for undergraduate university students and a professional organization for graduates, typically university Speech and Debate Coaches. Pi Kappa Delta, or PKD, encourages the education of articulate citizens through a three part focus: the commitment to and promotion of ethical, humane and inclusive communication and educational practices; the commitment to and promotion of professional development of forensics educators; and the commitment to and promotion of comprehensive forensics programming.
Pi Lambda Phi Pi Lambda Phi (ΠΛΦ or Pi Lam) is a college social fraternity founded by Frederick Manfred Werner, Louis Samter Levy, and Henry Mark Fisher at Yale University in 1895. It was founded as the first non-sectarian fraternity, "a fraternity in which all men were brothers, no matter what their religion; a fraternity in which ability, open-mindedness, farsightedness, and a progressive, forward-looking attitude would be recognized as the basic attributes.
Pi Sigma Alpha Pi Sigma Alpha (Π Σ Α), National Political Science Honor Society, is the only honor society for college and university students of government and politics in the United States. As of 2005, there are 621 Pi Sigma Alpha chapters on college and university campuses across the country.
Pi yao The Pi Yao is the heavenly variation of a particularly powerful and auspicious creature of good fortune. He is said to have the power to assist anyone suffering from bad Feng Shui due to having offended the Grand Duke Jupiter (Tai Sui).
Pi-calculus In theoretical computer science, the pi-calculus is a process calculus originally developed by Robin Milner, Joachim Parrow and David Walker as a continuation of the body of work on the process calculus CCS (Calculus of Communicating Systems). The aim of the pi-calculus is to be able to describe concurrent computations whose configuration may change during the computation.
Pi-hahiroth Pi-hahiroth (Hebrew: פִּי הַחִירֹת) was a place in Ancient Egypt on the west bank of the Red Sea. The Book of Exodus refers to Pi-hahiroth as the place where the Israelites encamped while awaiting an imminent attack by Pharaoh, prior to crossing the Red Sea.
Pia Carry The Pia Carry was created for use exclusively by lifeguards by Frank Pia. It requires a strong legs-only kick that is used to support the non-drowning victim as far out of the water as possible, to stop the instinctive drowning response.
Pia de' Tolomei Pia de' Tolomei is a tragedia lirica, or tragic opera, in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvatore Cammarano wrote the Italian libretto after Bartolomeo Sestini's novella, in its turn after Dante's narrative poem The Divine Comedy part 2: Purgatorio.
Pia Fidelis Pia Fidelis, Latin feminine form for "pious and faithful", was the cognomen of several Roman legions, awarded by an emperor when the legion had proved "devoted and loyal". Some legions received this honour several times, and their name included the number of awards.
Pia Getty Pia Christina Miller Getty (born 1966, New York City), is the oldest daughter of billionaire Robert W. Miller and sister of Marie-Chantal of Greece and Alexandra von FĂĽrstenberg, a trio famously dubbed "The Miller Sisters.
Pia Gjellerup Pia Gjellerup (born August 22 1959) is a Danish politician representing the Social Democrats. She has been a Member of Parliament (Folketinget) since September 8 1987 and has occupied three different cabinet positions: Justice Minister (January 25 1993 - March 29 1993), Minister of Trade and Industry (March 23 1998 - December 23 2000), and Finance Minister (December 21 2000 - November 27 2001).
Pia Guerra Pia Guerra is an award winning comic book artist best known for her work as co-creator and lead penciller on the Vertigo title Y: The Last Man. She has been nominated multiple times for the Eisner Awards and has won Outstanding Comic Book Artist for 2006 at the Joe Shuster Awards.
Pia Haraldsen Pia Haraldsen (b. 1981) is daughter of Janand Jasmin Strømsnes and the step-daughter of the niece of Queen Sonja of Norway, Karl Otto Haraldsen, who became known in her country after posing for photographers like a pop star http://www.
Pia Kjærsgaard Pia Merete Kjærsgaard (born February 23, 1947 in Copenhagen) is a Danish politician. She is a co-founder and current leader of the "Dansk Folkeparti", (Danish People's Party), a Danish nativist/nationalist political party.
Pia Miranda Pia Miranda (born June 15 1973) is an Australian, multi-award winning actress whose career was launched with her massively successful 2000 role in the feature film Looking for Alibrandi, an Australian film based on the novel by Melina Marchetta.
Pia Sundhage Pia Sundhage (February 13, ) is a Swedish coach and former footballer. She is the top goal scorer in the history of the national team, as well as the one that has played the most matches; scoring 71 goals in 146 games.
Piae Cantiones Piae Cantiones ecclesiasticae et scholasticae veterum episcoporum (in English Devout ecclesiastical and scholastic songs of the old bishops) is a collection of late medieval Latin songs compiled by Jacobus Finno and published in 1582 by Theodoricus Petri Nylandensi, also known as Theodoric Petri of Nyland (ca. 1560- ca.
Piaffe The piaffe is a high school dressage movement where the horse is in a highly collected and cadenced trot, in place or nearly in place. The center of gravity of the horse should be more towards the hind end, with the hindquarters slightly lowered and great bending of the joints in the hind legs.
Piaggio Aero Piaggio Aero Industries is an aircraft] manufacturing company born from the former Rinaldo Piaggio SPA, an Italian company. The company is one of the world's oldest airplane manufacturers, and its planes have been well known from early days of [[aviation history.
Piako River The Piako River is located to the south of the Hauraki Gulf in the North Island of New Zealand. It is, with the Waihou River, one of the two main rivers which form the Hauraki Plains, at the southern end of the Firth of Thames.
PiaĹŁa Unirii PiaĹŁa Unirii (meaning "Union Square" in Romanian) is one of the largest squares in central Bucharest, located in center of the city where Sectors 1, 2, 3, and 4 meet. It is bisected by Unirii Boulevard, originally built during the Communist era as the Boulevard of the Victory of Socialism, and renamed after the Romanian Revolution of 1989.
Piane Sesia Piane Sesia (to distinguish it from other places named "Piane") is a frazione (fraction) of Serravalle Sesia, in the italian province of Vercelli. Other frazioni (fractions) of Serravalle are Bornate, Vintebbio and Serravalle Sesia itself.
Pianese Nunzio, 14 anni a maggio Pianese Nunzio, 14 anni a maggio is a 1996 movie from Italy directed by Antonio Capuano that deals with a gay Catholic priest, his pederastic relationship with a Napolitan street boy, and the domination of daily life in Southern Italy by the Camorra. The title translates as Pianese Nunzio, 14 in May and the movie was released in the USA with the title Sacred Silence.
Piankeshaw The Piankeshaw (or Piankashaw) Indians were Native Americans, and members of the Miami Indians who lived apart from the Miami nation. They lived in an area that now includes western Indiana and Ohio, and were closely allied with the Wea Indians.
Piano A piano or pianoforte is a musical instrument classified as a keyboard, percussion, or string instrument, depending on the system of classification used. The piano produces sound by striking steel strings with felt hammers that immediately rebound allowing the string to continue vibrating.
Piano bar A piano bar (also known as a piano lounge) consists of a piano or electronic keyboard played by a professional musician, located in a cocktail lounge or bar. Usually the pianist collects tips, especially from patrons "requesting" a song.
Piano blues Piano blues refers to a variety of blues styles, sharing only the characteristic that they use the piano as the primary musical instrument. Boogie woogie is the best known kind of piano blues, though barrelhouse, swing, R&B, rock and roll and jazz are strongly influenced by early pianists who played the blues.
Piano Concerto (Busoni) The Piano Concerto by Busoni, Opus 39, is one of the largest works written in this particular genre. The work is in five movements, the last of which also utilizes a male chorus, to a text by Oehlenschlaeger--a highly unusual feature for the piano concerto.
Piano Concerto (Dvořák) The Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in G minor, Op. 33 was the first of three concertos that Antonín Dvořák composed -- he wrote a piano concerto, a violin concerto and, lastly, a cello concerto -- and without a doubt it is his least known and least performed concerto.
Piano Concerto (Furtwängler) The Symphonic Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in b minor by Wilhelm Furtwängler was written between 1924 and 1937 and is among the longest of all piano concertos. It received its world premiere in Munich on October 1937, with Edwin Fischer as the piano soloist; Furtwängler conducted the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand (Ravel) The Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D major (Concerto pour la main gauche en ré majeur) was composed by Maurice Ravel between 1929 and 1930, concurrently with his Piano Concerto in G Major. It was commissioned by the Austrian pianist, Paul Wittgenstein (brother of the philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein), who lost his right arm during World War I.
Piano Concerto No. 1 (Shostakovich) The Concerto in C minor for Piano, Trumpet, and String Orchestra, op. 35, was completed by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1933 and premiered the same year by the composer at the piano and the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra.
Piano Concerto No. 3 (BartĂłk) BartĂłk's third piano concerto is a musical composition for piano with orchestral accompaniment. The piece was composed in 1945 by Hungarian composer BĂ©la BartĂłk during the final months of his career and life.
Piano Concerto No. 3 (Tchaikovsky) Tchaikovsky's Third Piano Concerto proved one of the more troublesome of its composer's musical progeny. Birthed as a symphony, then discarded, it returned as a three-movement concerto, only to give no end of trouble to Tchaikovsky as he continued to work with it.
Piano Concertos Nos 1-4 (Mozart) Mozart began his series of preserved piano concertos with four that he wrote at the age of 11, in Salzburg: KV 37 and 39-41. The autographs, all held by the JagiellĂłnska Library, KrakĂłw, are dated by his father as having been completed in April (KV 37) and July (KV 39-41) of 1767.
Piano Magic Piano Magic is musical collective formed in the summer of 1996 by Glen Johnson, Dominic Chennell, and Dick Rance in London, England. Their sound has been described as ambient pop, post-rock, indietronica, as well as other things.
Piano Man: The Very Best of Piano Man: The Very Best of is a greatest hits album, by Billy Joel, originally released on 15 November 2004 on its own, but the album was re-released on 10 July 2006, with a DVD also in the package. The CD contains 18 of his biggest hits, whilst the DVD contains 10 videos (some of which are live).
Piano Phase Piano Phase is a piece of music written in 1967 by the minimalist composer Steve Reich for two pianos. It is his first attempt at applying his "phasing" technique which he had previously used in the tape pieces It's Gonna Rain (1965) and Come Out (1966) to live performance.
Piano quartet A piano quartet is a musical ensemble consisting of a piano and three other instruments, or a piece written for such a group. In classical music, those other instruments are usually a string trio, that is a violin, viola and cello.
Piano rock Piano rock, sometimes referred to as piano pop, is a term for a style of music that is based around the piano, and sometimes around piano-related instruments, such as the Fender Rhodes, the Wurlitzer electric piano, and keyboard-based synthesizers.
Piano Red Piano Red (born Willie Perryman, October 19, 1911) (died 1985) was an American blues musician, and the first to hit the pop music charts. His simple, hard-pounding left hand and his percussive right hand, coupled with his cheerful shout brought him considerable success over three decades.
Piano sextet A piano sextet is a composition for piano and five other musical instruments, or a group of six musicians who perform such works. There is no standard grouping of instruments with that name, and compared to the string quartet or piano quintet literature, relatively few such compositions exist.
Piano sonatas (Boulez) Pierre Boulez composed three piano sonatas. The First Piano Sonata in 1946, a Second Piano Sonata in 1948, and a Third Piano Sonata was composed in 1955-57 with further elaborations up to at least 1963, though only two of its movements (and a fragment of another) have been published.
Piano Seven Originally conceived by pianists François Lindemann and Sebastian Santa Maria in 1987 as a one-off experiment for seven pianists playing together, Piano Seven enjoyed such success that the concert had a second run and the Swiss-based ensemble was soon born. This Ensemble of seven pianists have
Piano Sonata (Liszt) Franz Liszt's Piano Sonata in B minor (Klaviersonate h-moll), dedicated to Robert Schumann, is widely considered to be his greatest work for the instrument, and one of the seminal works of the Romantic piano literature.
Piano Sonata No. 23 (Beethoven) Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, opus 57, colloquially known as the Appassionata, is considered one of the three great piano sonatas of his middle period (the others being the Waldstein sonata, opus 53 and the Lebewohl (Les adieux) sonata, opus 81a).
Piano Sonata No. 26 (Beethoven) Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 26 in E flat major, opus 81a, known as the Les Adieux, is considered one of the three great piano sonatas of his middle period (the other two being the Waldstein sonata, opus 53 and Appassionata sonata, Opus 57).
Piano Sonata No. 29 (Beethoven) Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 29 in B flat major, opus 106, known as the Hammerklavier, is widely considered to be one of the defining works of the composer's third period and one of the great piano sonatas.
Piano Squall Piano Squall (born March 8, 1983) is the stage name of Michael Gluck, a pianist specializing in the performance of music from video games and anime. He is recognized on MTV’s website for his contribution to the world of game music.
Piano transcriptions A piano transcription is a piece of music played on one or more pianos that is an approximation of a source piece of music. The source may be music for a solo instrument or voice, an ensemble of instruments and/or voices, or even a piece originally for solo or ensemble piano.
Piano Technicians Guild The Piano Technicians Guild (PTG), based in Kansas City, Kansas, is the official organization of the Registered Piano Technician (RPT). It is considered the preeminent source of expertise in piano technology and service.
Piano Trio (Ives) The Trio for Violin, Violoncello, and Piano is a work by the American composer Charles Ives. According to Charles Ives’ wife, the three movements of the piano trio are a reflection of Ives’ college days at Yale.
Piano Trio (Tchaikovsky) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Trio in a minor, op. 50 for piano, violin, and cello is subtitled In memory of a Great Artist, by whom the composer meant the pianist Nikolai Rubinstein (1835-1881), a close friend of the composer.
Piano wire Piano wire is a specialized type of wire made for use in piano and other musical instrument strings, as well as many other purposes. It is made from tempered high-carbon steel, also known as "spring steel".
Piano wire in popular culture Piano wire, in addition to being an important part of pianos and other devices, also plays a prominent role in popular culture. In this capacity, it is most often an instrument of murder or other forms of killing.
Piano-Rag-Music Piano-Rag-Music is a composition for piano solo by Igor Stravinsky, written in 1919. At the beginning of the 20th century, the ragtime, originally a syncopated binary dance with bass note and its chord alternated respectively on the even and odd counts, reached an impressionable peak.
Piano: The Melody of a Young Girl's Heart Piano: The Melody of a Young Girl's Heart (Piano TV) is an anime series, which aired from November 11th, 2002 to January 13th, 2003, and ran for 10 episodes. Three volumes were released on DVD by The Right Stuf International in the United States as well as a complete collection in one collectors edition package.
Pianoman Pianoman is an alias of dance music producer James Sammon from Bradford, West Yorkshire who shot to number 6 in the UK Charts with the hit single "Blurred" in June 1996. His follow up to Blurred released on 3 Beat Records was from a Belinda Carlisle sample of "Live Your Life Be Free" and was titled "Party People" and narrowly missed a place in the Top 40.
Pianosaurus Pianosaurus was a 1980s Rock and Roll band from New York who played toy instruments, the name being taken from a child's plastic toy piano in the shape of a dinosaur, with a keyboard running along the right side. Their debut album was called Groovy Neighborhood and featured cover versions of Chuck Berry's Memphis as well as the 1960s hit "The Letter".
Piao-2 drifting mine Drifting-2 (漂-2, or Piao-2) drifting mine is a small drifting mine jointly developed by the 710th Research Institute and Dalian Crane Factory. This drifting mine system is the first in Chinese service to be able to taken apart for easier transportation, and then assembled just before being planted, and it is designed to float just below the surface of the water to aviod being visually detected.
Piapiac The Piapiac (Ptilostomus afer) is a member of the crow family, and is the only member of the genus Ptilostomus (Swainson, 1837). According to recent findings, it is most closely related to the Central Asian ground jays (Ericson et al.
Piara Khabra Piara Singh Khabra (born 20 November 1924) is a British politician, and has been Labour member of Parliament for Ealing Southall since 1992. Since the retirement of Sir Edward Heath in 2001, Khabra has been the oldest MP sitting in the House of Commons.
Piara Singh Gill Professor Piara Singh Gill, (28 October 1911 - 23 March 2002) was a scientist (physicist) who was a pioneer in cosmic ray nuclear physics and worked on the American nuclear Manhattan project Up Against Odds: Autobiography of an Indian Scientist. (South Asia Books, 1993.
Piaractus mesopotamicus Piaractus mesopotamicus is a South American ray-finned fish that is endemic to the Paraguay-Paraná River basin, though it has been introduced by aquaculture activities in a wider area. It is usually referred to simply by its common name, pacú, but it is also known as pez chato ("flat fish"), mbiraí, or piraí.
Piarists The Clerics Regulars Poors of the Mother of God of the Pious Schools or short Piarists is the name of a Catholic educational order, also known as the Scolopi, Escolapios or Poor Clerics of the Mother of God (in both cases 'Clerics' can also become 'Clerks', same etymology).
Piaroa The Piaroa are an indigenous American ethnic group living along the banks of the Orinoco and its tributaries in present day Venezuela, and in a few scattered locations elsewhere in Venezuela and in Colombia. The Piaroa number at a population of about 12,000.
Piasa The Piasa or Piasa Bird is a legendary creature that was depicted in a mural painted by Native Americans on a cliff above the Mississippi River. Its original location was in Jersey County near present day Elsah, Illinois.
Piasecki Aircraft Piasecki Aircraft Corporation (PiAC) was founded by vertical flight pioneer Frank Piasecki to continue pursuing the development of compound helicopters and other advanced rotorcraft. PiAC's history of innovation and new ideas lead to their selection as prime contractor for several Army Future Combat Systems UAV systems.
Piasecki H-21 The Piasecki H-21 Workhorse/Shawnee is an American helicopter, the fourth of a line of tandem rotor helicopters designed and built by Piasecki Helicopter (later Boeing Vertol). Commonly called the "flying banana", it was a multi-mission helicopter, utilizing wheels, skis, or floats.
Piasecki H-25/HUP The Piasecki H-25 Army Mule/HUP Retriever was a compact single radial engine, twin overlapping tandem rotor utility helicopter developed by the Piasecki Helicopter Corporation of Morton, Pennsylvania during the late 1940s and produced during the early 1950s. The company changed its name in the 1956 to Vertol Aircraft Corporation and subsequently was bought by Boeing Aircraft Company in 1960, and became Boeing-Vertol.
Piassava Piassava, which is also called Piaçaba and Piasaba or Pissaba, is a fibrous product of two Brazilian palms: Attalea funifera and Leopoldinia piassaba. In addition, it is often used in making brooms, and for other purposes.
Piast canal The Piast Canal (, ) is a canal that connects the Oder Lagoon with the Baltic Sea, more exactly with the northern part of the Ĺšwina river. The eastern part of the river is bypassed, providing a more convenient south-north connection for large ships.
Piast dynasty The Piast dynasty is a line of Kings and dukes that ruled Poland from its beginnings as an independent state up to 1370. Branches of the Piasts continued to rule allied duchies in Masovia until 1526 and Silesia until 1675.
Piastów Piastów (early as Żdżary and Utrata) is a town in central Poland, near Warsaw, with 23,332 inhabitants (2004). It is situated in the Masovian Voivodship (since 1999), previously in Warszawa Voivodship (1975-1998).
Piatt Castles The Piatt Castles, built by brothers Donn and Abram Piatt in the 1860s and '70s, are two grand chateaux built in a French Gothic design. The homes are located a mile and a 1 3/4 miles east of the village of West Liberty, Ohio in Logan County.
Piave cheese Piave is a cow's milk cheese made only in the the Piave River Valley region of Bellunao, Italy. Shaped as a wheel, it is made from pasteurized milk collected in two milkings, one of which is skimmed, and is produced in the valley of the Piave River, between Belluno and Feltre.
Piazza dei Martiri (Naples) Piazza dei Martiri (Italian: Martyrs' Square) is a monument square in Naples located one block north of the eastern end of the large seaside park known as the Villa Comunale. The square was originally dedicated to Santa Maria a Cappella, but took on patriotic significance when Italy was united in 1860.
Piazza del Campo Piazza del Campo, in the center of Siena, is Siena's premier public space. The piazza is shell-shaped, symbolically uniting the different levels formed by the conjunction of the three hills on which the city was founded.
Piazza del Popolo The Piazza del Popolo is one of the most famous places, especially for foreigners, in Rome. The name in modern Italian literally means "piazza of the people", but historically it derives from the poplars (populus in Latin, pioppo in Italian) after which the church of Santa Maria del Popolo, in the northeast corner of the piazza, takes its name.
Piazza della Loggia bombing The Piazza della Loggia bombing was a bombing that took place on the morning of May 28, 1974, in Brescia, Italy during a anti-fascist protest which killed 8 people and wounded over 90. The bomb was placed inside a rubbish bin.
Piazza Fontana bombing The Piazza Fontana bombing () refers to the terrorist bombing on December 12 1969 in the offices of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura ("National Agrarian Bank") in Piazza Fontana, Milan, Italy, carried out by far-right terrorists. In total, 16 people were killed and up to 90 were wounded.
Piazza Navona Piazza Navona is a square in Rome. The piazza follows the plan of an ancient Roman circus, the 1st century Stadium of Domitian, where the Romans came to watch the agones ("games"): today's name stems from the corruption of the latter in in agone, then nagone and navona, which actually means "big ship" in Italian.
Piazzi (crater) Piazzi is a lunar crater that is located near the southwestern limb of the Moon, and is attached to the southeast rim of the Lagrange walled plain. About three crater diameters to the south is the Inghirami crater.
Piñata The piñata is a bright container generally suspended on a rope from a tree branch or ceiling that is filled with candy and toys and is used during celebrations. A succession of blindfolded, stick-wielding children and some fun-loving adults will try to break the piñata in order to collect the candy (traditionally fruit, such as sugarcane) inside of it.
Pièce de résistance Pièce de résistance is a French term (circa 1839), translated into English literally as "piece of resistance", referring to the best part or feature of something (as in a meal), a showpiece, or highlight. Literal translation of the phrase, although, fails to define it.
Pièce montée A pièce montée (from French, literally "assembled piece" or "mounted piece," plural pièces montées) is a kind of decorative confectionary centerpiece in an architectural or sculptural form used for formal banquets and made of materials such as confectioner's paste, nougat, marzipan, and spun sugar. Although the ingredients were typically edible, their purpose was purely decorative and they were often not really meant to be consumed.
Pièces de clavecin (Rameau) Pièces de clavecin are three books of pieces for the harpsichord written by the French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau. The first book was published in 1706; the second in 1724; and the third in 1728 (as Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin).
Pièces de clavecin en concert The Pièces de clavecin en concerts, published in 1741, constitute the only chamber music by Jean-Philippe Rameau and were composed in full maturity; they came after his music for solo harpsichord, and just before les Indes galantes.
Piblokto Piblokto, Pibloktoq or arctic hysteria is a condition exclusively appearing in Inuit societies living within the arctic circle. Appearing most prevalently in winter, it is considered to be a form of a Culture-specific disorder.
Pic de l'Aurore The Pic de l'Aurore (Peak o'Dawn) is a cliff culminating at about 800 feet at the west entrance of the village of Percé on the Gaspé Peninsula, Quebec, Canada. From Its top you get an extraordinary view on both the bay of Gaspé up to the Forillon National Park of Canada, and the bay of Percé including the Percé Rock and the Parc national de L'Île-Bonaventure-et-du-Rocher-Percé.
Pic du Midi de Bigorre The Pic du Midi de Bigorre or simply Pic du Midi (altitude 2,877 meters [9,439 feet]) is a mountain in the French Pyrenees famous for its astronomical observatory, the Observatoire du Pic du Midi de Bigorre (Pic du Midi Observatory), part of the Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (Midi-Pyrénées Observatory).
Pic language Pic is a domain-specific language by Brian Kernighan for specifying diagrams in terms of objects such as boxes with arrows between them. The pic compiler translates this description into concrete drawing commands.
Pic Macaya National Park Parc National Pic Macaya (Pic Macaya National Park) is one of two national parks of the Republic of Haiti. It is located in the southern part of the country, and features the country's last stand of virgin cloud forest.
Picabo Street Picabo Street (born April 3, 1971 in Triumph, Idaho) is an American skier, now retired and living in Portland, Oregon. She was raised on a small farm in Triumph, several miles southeast of Sun Valley, where she learned to ski and race.
Picadillo Picadillo is a dish mainly consisting of ground beef (sometimes shredded chicken) typically found in Cuba, Mexico, and other Latin American countries. It is normally used as a filling, such as for tacos, and can be mixed with vegetables.
Picadils The scalloped or tabbed edge at the neck and armhole, fashionable in late 16th and early 17th-century dress. The name Piccadilly was given to a London thoroughfare because of a tailor named Robert Baker who specialized in making picadils.
Picados Picados -- the flamenco scales of a guitar or guitar playing technique by which the musician plays scale passages by alternating the index and middle fingers. Picados is normally executed apoyando (with rest strokes).

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